Comment by robomartin

As concepts go, not a bad start. One of my immediate thoughts was that this would be better served on a multi-monitor system. Every single one of our development machines has three 24 inch 1920 x 1200 screens. It's fantastic. You can keep everything you need up and available. It makes working on complex ideas an absolute pleasure.

On the hardware design front we use a program use a EDA tool called Altium Designer for schematics and board design. This, by far, is the most well thought-out application I have seen when it comes to multi-monitor smarts. It makes for a nicely flowing and efficient design process.